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Captain Calamity · Beat 87 · permalink

Private office

24:48–25:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5424:54Frame at 25:0925:09

Play from 24:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 52 · shots 226–227. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a white suit, light-colored tie, and glasses hanging from his neck visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a blue button-up shirt with a black bow tie, short brown hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand close, talking in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • The woman laughs while holding a small object; the man smiles at her. [frame:2]
Also said
“marriage, seriously. Hey, watch out with you're doing. They're captain's breakfast.” 25:12 · “Bill, did you ever have a list of the passengers?” 25:12
Seen
white suit [frame:1], blue shirt with black bow tie [frame:1], glasses hanging from neck [frame:1], small object in woman's hand [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conspiratorial; themes: secret investment, marriage proposal, shipboard setting; style notes: medium close-up shots, soft studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man and a woman converse in a dimly lit interior; the man wears a white suit and the woman a blue shirt with a bow tie. The transcript mentions Captain Bill Jones, a treasure, and an investment, and includes a line about breakfast and a passenger list.

“Have you heard of Captain Bill Jones, Mr. Warren? Heard of him? Who hasn't? They say he's found a great treasure somewhere.” 24:53 · “Yes, yes, I know. But he needs capital to go after it. Now, if you would invest, say, oh, a thousand dollars without letting him know that I suggested it,” 24:53 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Captain Calamity (1936) at 24:54 (passage 24:48–25:18); US record: No renewal found

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